Alfred Jansa

Alfred Jansa (16 July 1884-20 December 1963) was Chief of the General Staff of Austria in 1938.

Biography
Alfred Jansa was born on 16 July 1884 and served as a Captain in the general staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and during World War I he continued to serve in the Balkans on Otto von Below's staff in Macedonia. In 1930 he became a Major-General in the newly-formed republic of Austria, and in 1939 he planned to fight against Nazi Germany when they invaded Austria in the Anschluss. However, a lack of money forced him to give up his plans to fight, and he was a civilian during World War II. After the war's end in 1945, he helped in forming the new army of Austria in the Cold War, and he died in 1963.